Originally Posted by
that_was_easy
Next, I'd like to (have the LBS) replace the 20+ year old headset (do Tange Falcon HS commonly last this long?) with a 2Nut Chris King. Yes, it is %89.6 overkill, but it's time to replace the headset anyway and I don't want to have to worry about it. I don't want to install any of the CK HS races BEFORE the powdercoating because I'm concerned with what the heat will do to them and I know that area will (PROBABLY ???) need to be taped off anyway. As I understand it, the CK 2Nut should work on my JIS 1" headtube, plus allow for some spacing. Does anybody have any experience with this or wish to provide confirmation?
Yes, the headset goes in after the paint, powdercoat, etc.
And yes, it isn't unusual for any reasonably decent headset to last 20 years. This is the part I don't get about the Chris King fetish, you ask guys why they're spending all that on a headset and the answer is how it'll last forever. They all last forever. Yeah, not all are quite as well sealed, those need fresh grease every dog's age or so. For a 5 to 1 cost differential I'll repack some bearings after the presidential elections. I have exactly ONE headset that has failed to hold up for decades and it was previously owned by a crack head and then the crack heads dealer, then an incompetent mechanic mis-adjusted it and I mis-adjusted it and then a mechanic at a race moments before the wave off mis-adjusted it. That's what it takes to hurt a conventional headset, crack-heads and morons. CK isn't gonna survive that either.
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